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TUESDAY, JAN. 20, 2009
MiamiHerald.com
106TH YEAR, NO. 128 ©2009
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THE MIDDLE EAST
Gazans
take stock
of rubble,
death toll
THE INAUGURATION OF BARACK OBAMA | MORE COVERAGE 2A-5A
SCENES OF CHANGE
■ Bodies were retrieved from
collapsed buildings and families
picked through the wreckage of their
homes on the first full day of Israel’s
truce with Hamas.
BY SHASHANK BENGALI
[email protected]
BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip — Israel
continued to pull its troops out of Gaza on
Monday as thousands of Palestinians confronted the wreckage the soldiers left
behind: shattered lives, whole neighborhoods under rubble and an ever-rising
death toll.
Israeli news media reported that Israel
would withdraw all its troops before Barack Obama was sworn in as U.S. president
on Tuesday. However, the first full day of
a cease-fire was no consolation to Gazans
still tallying their losses, such as the Soboh
family, who buried a girl just 20 days old.
Baby Mariam caught a severe cold
hours after she was born, when Israeli soldiers advanced on their village in northern
Gaza and her family was forced to flee into
the chilly night. Nearly a week passed
before it was safe enough for her parents
to take her to a doctor, but by then, her
father said, it was too late.
Mariam died Monday morning, and
perhaps the only blessing of her short life
was that she died on a day when it was
safe for her family to leave an emergency
shelter to lay her to rest.
In Gaza City, seemingly every outpost
of the Hamas-led government — the parliament building, the Justice Department,
police stations and even firehouses — lay
in heaps, with giant concrete slabs teetering at improbable angles. In other places
the damage appeared random: middle-
WIRE PHOTOS
CROWDS IN THE CAPITAL: The excitement was building as thousands of people poured onto the National Mall. Three
million people are expected to throng Washington, D.C. for the historic inauguration of Barack Obama.
Simple, elegant
ceremony will
signal the start
of a new era
BY STEVEN THOMMA
[email protected]
WASHINGTON — America
changes course Tuesday.
Barack Obama of Illinois will
take office as the nation’s 44th
president at noon EST in a simple
yet elegant ceremony that will
mark a peaceful transfer of
power. He does so at a time of
unusual peril, with a sputtering
economy at home and U.S. troops
still in harm’s way in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
The inauguration of the youthful and popular new president —
and the departure of the unpopular incumbent, George W. Bush
— will set off a potentially dramatic shift in direction on policies, from the wars abroad to the
role of the federal government at
home, and a change in tone, with
the rise of a new generation more
prone to problem-solving than to
ideological conflict.
At the center of it all is the 47year-old son of a black father
from Kenya and a white mother
from Kansas who will become
the first African American to
reach the nation’s highest office.
Thousands of people poured
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For Miamians,
D.C. bus trip
passes torch
to a generation
SCHEDULE
11:30 a.m.: Call to Order
and Welcoming Remarks,
Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
11:46 a.m.: Vice
President-elect Joseph R.
Biden administered the
Oath of Office.
11:56 a.m.: President-elect
Barack H. Obama
administered the Oath of
Office.
12:01 p.m.: Inaugural
address
12:30 p.m.: President
Obama accompanies
now-former President
George W. Bush to a
departure ceremony.
1 p.m.: President Obama
and invited guests attend
lunch at the Capitol.
2:30 p.m.: The 56th
Inaugural Parade begins.
7 p.m.: Official inaugural
balls begin. The Obamas
have their first dance at
Neighborhood Ball.
8 p.m.: The Obamas begin
to attend the remaining
nine official balls.
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ALLEGEDLY JOINING A U.S. PLOT, 11A
BY BETH REINHARD
[email protected]
For Eufaula Frazier, taking
seven children to see the inauguration of the first black president
signifies a ‘‘passing of the torch.’’
The 84-year-old community
activist from Liberty City struggled for weeks to organize a trip
to Washington on a shoestring
budget and a prayer. On Monday,
after almost 22 hours on a bus,
plus a car ride and two subway
trains, the Capitol’s dome finally
came into sight. ‘‘Is that the
White House?’’ wondered Alexandra Leno, 15.
‘‘It was a thrill, deep in my
heart, to see their expressions,’’
Frazier said of the children, ages
5 to 18. ‘‘That said to me that they
knew what they were there for. I
believe we did something that
will put them on the right path.’’
Barack Obama has spoken of
his debt to the Moses generation
— those who fought for freedom
but never crossed over into the
promised land of racial equality
— and called for young people,
the Joshua generation, to take up
the cause. To grab the torch.
These kids from Miami, Opa-
JOHN McCAIN AND BARACK OBAMA ON MONDAY
TV COVERAGE
Full-time coverage begins at 9 a.m. Tuesday on Fox and at
10 a.m. on the rest of the broadcast networks, though ABC,
NBC and CBS will devote most of their morning news
shows to the event, starting at 7 a.m. Cable coverage will
begin even earlier.
Broadcast networks will continue coverage into the
afternoon. CBS returns with a special at 6 p.m.; ABC and
NBC at 7 p.m. ABC covers the Neighborhood Ball live at 7
p.m. BET will begin live coverage at 7 a.m. At 8 p.m., it airs
an inauguration musical special.
Univision will begin Spanish-language coverage at 7 a.m.
MORE COVERAGE
• South Florida celebrates MLK Day, inauguration, 1B
• Tech Tuesday looks at the evolving presidency, 8B
CORAL RIDGE
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Pastor vows
to take politics
out of pulpit
■ William Graham Tullian Tchividjian,
grandson of evangelist Billy Graham,
has been asked to take the helm at
Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in
Fort Lauderdale.
BY JAWEED KALEEM
[email protected]
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When D. James Kennedy, the influential pastor who pushed conservative politics from the pulpit of Fort Lauderdale’s
Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, died in
2007, members lost the fiery leadership of
the man who built it from a congregation
of a few dozen to more
than 10,000 with internationally viewed television and radio programs.
Now, successor William Graham Tullian
Tchividjian, 36, grandson
of evangelist Billy Graham and head of MarTCHIVIDJIAN
gate’s relatively small
New City Church, is ready to take Coral
Ridge in a new direction.
Tchividjian (chi-VID-gen) — friends
call him Tullian — is no stranger to the
church, whose congregants erupted in
cheers Sunday when they heard he was
offered the job. An occasional guest
speaker at Coral Ridge who has a radio
show on WAFG-FM 90.3, he is expected to
modernize the thinking of the church over
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